If you’ve ever wanted to play the ukulele, identify wildflowers, build a worm farm, mount photos for display or become a cheese connoisseur, The Library Center can help you get started with a free event on Saturday, March 4.

The Library Center will host its first How-To Festival from 10 a.m. to 3:15 p.m. Local experts and library staff members will present 35 half-hour sessions on those topics and many more. The goal of the sessions is to introduce novices to each topic and show them how they can learn more. It’s just another way public libraries across the country are sharing information in a fun, useful way with their communities, the festival organizer said.

“It's perfect for people who know nothing or very little about a topic and just want to know how to get started on a new skill or hobby,” said Tammy Flippen, a librarian who helped organize the event.

Throughout the event, up to five 30-minute sessions will be going on at any given time in the Library Center’s meeting rooms.

The sessions will cover practical skills like beekeeping, selecting wine on a budget and housetraining a puppy, as well as artistic hobbies like drawing with colored pencils, creating crafts from old books and learning Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” dance.

Among the other sessions:

417 Gamers will do general sessions on learning new and different board games, as well as a session focusing on “Settlers of Catan.”

Several sessions will focus on techniques for living a better life, including meditating, stretching, organizing your life with “bullet journals” and traveling safely as an older adult.

Attendees can also learn how to research the history of their homes, “upcycling” wood pallets and viewing the “Great American Eclipse” on Aug. 21.

In the concourse, staff members will demonstrate library technology, including a 3-D printer, and show patrons how to use their digital devices to access library e-books, music and movies.

For more information, call the Library Center at 417-883-5341. For a complete schedule of sessions, visit thelibrary.org/howtofestival, or pick up a schedule at a library branch or the spring Bookends calendar of events.